The 2017 DAF Award nominees at Sydney Film Festival

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This June at Sydney Film Festival we will present the fourth annual Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Best Australian Documentary. The award is generously supported by Documentary Australia Foundation with a $10,000 cash prize acknowledging excellence in documentary production. Up to 10 films of any length are selected for the competition, and the jury awards the cash prize at SFF’s Closing Night ceremony on Sunday 18 June.

Previous winners include In the Shadow of the Hill (2016), Only the Dead (2015), 35 Letters (2014), Buckskin (2013), Killing Anna (2012), Life in Movement (2011), The Snowman (2010), A Good Man (2009) and Contact (2009).

And the 2017 nominees for the DAF Award for Best Australian Documentary are....

Barbecue

An epic, mouth-watering celebration of the tradition of barbecuing across the world: from South African braais and Texan pitmasters to a New Zealand hangi.

A daughter's search for her lost family stretches from Australia to Trinidad and WWII Germany. Rich with archival images, Su Goldfish's autobiographical documentary echoes through all those touched by forced migration.